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Some US$ 30 million believed to be tied to Pavlo Lazarenko, Ukraine’s former Prime Minister and allegedly one of the world’s most corrupt top officials, are sitting frozen in a Lithuanian bank, OCCRP’s Lithuanian partner 15min.lt revealed Wednesday.

The Romanian branch of hypermarket chain Hornbach has announced it is severing its relationship with Austrian timber giant Holzindustrie Schweighofer, following an OCCRP investigation implicating the company in illegal logging.

A court in the Spanish city of Barcelona issued an international warrant on Friday for the arrest of Dmitry Firtash, an exiled Ukrainian oligarch allied to Russian President Vladimir Putin and tied to US president-elect Donald Trump’s former campaign manager, media reports said.

A number of high-ranking Ukrainian officials used a complex web of offshore companies and bank accounts to conduct property deals in multiple countries, according to a cache of leaked documents obtained by OCCRP.

The US Treasury on Thursday sanctioned 37 people and entitieslinked to Russia and Ukraine – including companies connected to a bridge championed by President Vladimir Putin – in an effort to beat the busting of sanctions imposed on Russia after it annexed Crimea in 2014.

United States television personality Larry King was reportedly paid US$ 225,000 from the "black ledger" of Ukraine’s former pro-Russian governing party, the latest turn in a scandal that helped lead to the resignation last week of the campaign chairman of US presidential candidate Donald J. Trump.

Despite widespread public fury over the billions allegedly stolen by former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych and his cronies, lawmakers last week could not push through a bill to claw back what had been taken.

The Politico Europe opinion article authored by Adrian Karatnycky and Alan Riley defending Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko over his involvement in the Panama Papers might have been faintly amusing, if it did not also raise serious concerns.

For six days in April, President Petro Poroshenko and his lawyers repeatedly said that none of the offshore companies Poroshenko set up in the British Virgin Islands (BVI), Cyprus and the Netherlands have bank accounts or conduct any financial activities.

A Ukrainian cybercriminal was one of the first to be convicted in what has been called the largest known computer hacking and securities fraud scheme, a news release from the US Department of Justice said.